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21st September 2022
05:12pm BST
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They did not intended on being away from each other for long as Sarah flew out to Nigeria again in September. She managed to visit Oluyemi again in March 2017, with her husband organising a beach party and barbecue for her birthday. Little did they know that would sadly be the last time they would see each other as it all went downhill from there.
In 2016, Sarah first made a visa application on Oluyemi’s behalf, despite him asking her not to, but it was turned down due to him having insufficient funds to support himself in the UK. She then applied again for a UK visa for Oluyemi in 2017.
However, she claims she forgot she had previously applied and checked ‘no’ to a question asking if a visa had previously been requested for him. The Home Office declined the application as a result and since then the pair have focused all their time and money so they can be together.
Sarah explained that they both proposed to each other and that she wanted to get married "as soon as possible" and that when she returned to the UK in 2017, they we applied for him to come to the UK because "he’d never been here and it was about time he came".
She added: “The question asked ‘have you ever applied to come to the UK before’ and I put no – I forgot I had previously applied. Since then, I’ve written to the Home Office to say it was my fault but no one has listened.
“We’ve paid for solicitors to try and overturn their decision but nothing has worked at all, we spent about £5,000 on solicitors and they’ve tried but they just can’t appeal it because it says you can’t appeal.
“Unless there is a change of circumstances, I can’t apply again.”
A spokesperson for the Home Office said: "We do not routinely comment on individual cases. All visa applications are carefully considered on their individual merits in accordance with the immigration rules."
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